bad words

[kielni]

My son is 20 months old, and learning words like crazy. Unfortunately, he's picked up a bunch of new words from my nanny's 3 year old son that I am not happy about. I thought it wouldn't bother me, but it is. Actually, some don't bother me much ("oh s-") but some bother me a lot ("f-ing b-"). He's way too little to be talking like this!

So how do I get him to stop? The 3 year old started full time preschool/daycare, so my son won't be seeing him at all for a while. We've tried completely ignoring what he said, but he will repeat it over and over, and it seems like he's practicing. My nanny has been telling him those are "caca words" and that we don't say those words. I can't tell if that's working, but I wonder if that's telling him how to use them, kwim? We've also tried distraction; we calmly say "that's not nice" then immediately start singing a song or something like that. Any suggestions?

Kimberly

[lmk1]

Personally, I would just ignore it 100%. I would also tell the nanny to ignore it. Since he learned it from her son, her saying they're "caca" words doesn't really work! I think giving a label to those words makes them more interesting. At some point, if you just ignore them, then he'll stop saying them.

[sapphire_chan]

Is he still doing some jargoning? (Babbling nonsense words?) If so, ignoring them should make them go away soonish, just as he'll stop saying "baabaagoogoodadidoodumdada"

Calling them words, responding to them? Confirms they are words and words with power, like "no."

[MoonStarFalling]

I would completely ignore them. I don't even go as far as to say they're bad words etc. My DD was saying a particular phrase for such a long time but eventually she just stopped saying it. So don't loose faith, ignoring will work eventually.

[GeeDee]

This is a really soar subject between me and DH! Our almost 3 year old goes to a very very christian nursery school and I cringe thinking he repeats some of the stuff DH blurts out. Lately though our son has been correcting dad and telling him not to say bad words. It just scares me when you watch shows like super nanny and you hear these kids cussing like sailors! Anyway IDK I think I would correct him and tell him those are bad words...... its hard to say not knowing your child's personality???